Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement
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Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A major challenge for healthcare quality improvement is the lack of IT skills and knowledge of healthcare workforce, as well as their ambivalent attitudes toward IT. This article identifies and prioritizes actions needed to improve the IT skills of healthcare workforce across the EU. A total of 46 experts, representing different fields of expertise in healthcare and geolocations, systematically listed and scored actions that would improve IT skills among healthcare workforce. The Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative methodology was used for research priority-setting. The participants evaluated the actions using the following criteria: feasibility, effectiveness, deliverability, and maximum impact on IT skills improvement. The leading priority actions were related to appropriate training, integrating eHealth in curricula, involving healthcare workforce in the eHealth solution development, improving awareness of eHealth, and learning arrangement. As the different professionals' needs are prioritized, healthcare workforce should be actively and continuously included in the development of eHealth solutions.
Date Issued
2019-03-01
Date Acceptance
2017-04-01
Citation
Health Informatics Journal, 2019, 25 (1), pp.174-185
ISSN
1741-2811
Publisher
SAGE Publications (UK and US)
Start Page
174
End Page
185
Journal / Book Title
Health Informatics Journal
Volume
25
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© 2017 The Author(s). Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav. DOI: 10.1177/1460458217704257
Identifier
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28441906
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Health Care Sciences & Services
Medical Informatics
Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative
healthcare workforce
IT skills competence
priority-setting
ehealth
RESEARCH INVESTMENTS
INFORMATICS
EDUCATION
Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative
IT skills competence
ehealth
healthcare workforce
priority-setting
0806 Information Systems
0807 Library and Information Studies
Medical Informatics
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
Date Publish Online
2017-04-25